Friday, June 12, 2009

The Futility of Possession

A few moments ago,
my computer crashed
and I lost a poem
I had been writing since dawn.
Why did it vanish?
Where did it go?
Possession
is a comfortable illusion,
but uncertainty
is the true face of God;
we own nothing in this life,
not even our words.
- mce

2 comments:

  1. God ? seriously? I 'd love to discuss this God notion some time

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  2. God is a metaphor. Like all metaphors, you can choose to believe it or not. Failing that, you have to choose another metaphor, because metaphors are all that there is...

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